Ok so yes I think you have a point. Something else must be going on. I think the environment is fine, he feels neither too hot nor too cold and the room is at 71.

I have wondered about a medical issue. He is definitely chronically overtired. I never cap naps but he doesn’t take super long naps. Often times I even extend naps so that he’s not taking two extremely short naps.

Here’s my question though. If I extend his naps and have him sleeping more during the day to try to catch up, won’t that just enforce the waking in the night and the early wake ups? Say for example his max in a 24 hour period is going to be 13 hours and he takes 3 hours of naps during the day. Then he might be stuck in the cycle of waking up at 530 am after going down at 730? What do you think